David Kaufman, like most of us, assumes way too much about race and sexuality without acknowledging all of the picture. That's something we can be proactive about addressing, rather than unproductively ranting about.

There are certain actors we encounter as children having grown up on classic film who have a profound impact on us, and no one knows this better than David Kaufman, author of Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door.